You have been struggling with shared hosting for a while now. Your site slows down at busy times of the day, and you are looking for better hosting that doesn’t break the bank. Is managed WordPress hosting the answer? Quite possibly. Most hosting companies offer WordPress hosting for a slightly higher price than standard shared […]
Beware of Spam ‘Lifehacĸer’ Traffic To Your Blog
Nobody likes spam traffic to their website or blog, it messes with your historical data, uses up your bandwidth and you don’t know what kind of activity this traffic is doing on your site such as looking for security weaknesses. While checking our recent Google Analytics reports this morning for Bloggingpro.com I noticed a sharp […]
Top Ways to Protect Online Business Ventures
Online business ventures are a hit among the youth nowadays, mostly because startups only need an idea and webmaster or two to launch. But online ventures face grave threats that come in the form of cyber-attacks. Many newcomers to online business think all they need is a plugin or two to protect their sites, but […]
5 Lessons from the Recent WordPress Attack
Earlier this month, WordPress users across the world (as well as users on other platforms) fell victim to a massive brute-force attack on their sites. The hack, or attempted hack, used a large botnet (a network of compromised computers doing the bidding of someone else) to repeatedly try and guess passwords on WordPress sites to […]
5 Nightmare Scenarios for Your Blog
It’s Halloween in the United States (and much of the rest of the world). As such, people are gathering together for parties, going trick or treating and telling scary stories. In that spirit, last week on Performancing I discussed legal nightmares that can happen to you and your blog. Specifically, there were three scenarios that, […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Should Update Your Themes (and Use Child Themes)
Most bloggers and webmasters who use WordPress understand that you need to keep their core files up to date and also update any plugins that they may have. Fortunately, WordPress makes the process of doing so very easy and painless, usually just a click away, and most users seem to do it without thinking about […]
Hackers Breach WordPress.com Servers
Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) was unfortunately targeted by hackers recently and suffered a breach upon their servers. Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed. We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in […]
3 WordPress Habits That Make Hackers Happy
Despite rumors proclaiming the contrary, WordPress is actually a very secure CMS platform utilized by millions of users around the world. Unfortunately its immense popularity makes the software a prime target for hackers, similar to how Facebook and Twitter are prime targets since “everyone” is using them. While there are more advanced measures that users […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Should Perform a Blog Security Audit Today
Imagine sitting down to your computer one morning and opening up your blog. However, instead of finding your homepage your admin panel staring back at you, you instead see a bright red warning screen telling you that malware has been detected on the site and you are advised not to enter. The realization quickly sinks […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Password Fail
Question: What is the most common door hackers use to enter your site? Answer: The same one you use. It is a little-known fact that much of what we think of as “hacking” and “cracking” is really just social engineering and guesswork. Though blogs can and often do get exploited because of some kind of […]